At 6:00 a.m. on 21st March in the year 1, god created the world.
In the course of the following four days
he adorned it with stars and moons and oceans and various
decorations. On the sixth day he created Jesus in his
own divine image, placing him in the garden of Eden
with a mandate to go forth and
populate his domain.
Jesus had two sons in the same year, named Kane and Adam.
When they were 13, Kane murdered Adam by pushing him from
the branches of the Tree of Knowledge, which they had been
exploring together. This event is known as the Descent of Man,
and resulted the human race being expelled from Eden.
Kane's descendants bore the stigma of Original Sin
and over the generations devolved into the apes and monkeys
and lemurs and all the lower animals. Adam's descendants
remained in good standing and gave rise to the modern human
population of the world.
It is known that throughout most of human history, the average
age for giving birth has been approximately 16 years; thus there
have been approximately 120 generations since the creation. Until
recent times, families generally consisted of a great many children,
but even if the average family had only four children, that would
result in a world population of one million million million million
million million
(1036) by modern times. Given that the current world
population is only six thousand million, it may be inferred that the
Great Flood occurred about 516 years ago.
In 1492, god became angry with the peoples of the world, and
determined to wipe the face of the earth clean and start again.
He selected the one good man still living, Noah Webster, and
ordered him to build a giant Ark in which to save himself, his
family, and the animals. Noah, his wife Merriam, and their sons
Ham, Sham, Sass, and Columbo sailed the ocean blue for forty days
and forty nights while the earth was flooded. Noah steered the
ship, Sass navigated by the stars, Ham and Sham looked after
the animals, Columbo kept the log, and Merriam cooked and cleaned.
When the waters began to recede, they landed in
a new world, which they named Arkansas to honour their ship and navigator
for delivering them safely,
and founded modern society.
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